foundational
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4.6
- adjective
- /faʊnˈdeɪʃənl/
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fundamental
- Good nutrition is foundational for a child's growth and development.
- foundational skills
- foundational knowledge
- foundational concepts
Where is what is taken to be foundational or most important?
- Where is what is taken to be foundational or most important?
- Our hope is the foundational quality of all change.
- Now look again, there are some foundational items that we can give people.
- OK, because this is a foundational question that needs to be asked.
- They rely more on you getting those those core foundational concepts down.
- How have you made some foundational changes in yourself?
- You mentioned sleep, and you pointed this as being really foundational to health.
- So make sure that the foundational core is in good position first.
- Like, it's, it's foundational to a ton of Internet horror.
- I think intuition is deeply foundational to doing great work.
Examples
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Professional learning communities, already a foundational piece of many school reform efforts, must include counselors.
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I think this ends up being one of the foundational questions in human ethics.
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But you have to get the foundational piece right up front.
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Like what are those foundational ideas that have led to your success?
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You mentioned sleep, and you pointed this as being really foundational to health.
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Awareness of an animal's name and needs is a foundational early step towards ecological literacy.
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We began what would become a foundational 25-year collaboration in this field.
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But one person, one vote nevertheless laid down a foundational principle: equal population is the basis of equal representation.
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Morehouse has certain foundational principles about which its entire existence stands.
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Access must be understood in terms of building foundational skills for eventual success in grade-appropriate material.
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Synonyms
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1.0
Forming the simple and most necessary part of something
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3.5
Very important and necessary for something to work
Antonyms
How Fundamental
Surface Forms
Morphology
foundational = foundation (transparent) = found + ation + al
The adjective is formed regularly from the noun 'foundation' with '-al', and the sense of something being essential or basic is a standard extension of that noun.
Etymology
The word foundational comes from foundation, which comes from an old word meaning 'bottom' or 'base' and is the same idea behind found ('to start'). So something foundational is like the base you build on and is essential for what comes above.